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Richard Michelson

Massachusetts, United States

Member Since: 09/17/2011

Michelson’s
latest collection of poetry for adults is More Money than God
(Pitt Poetry Series, 2015). Previous collections include Battles & Lullabies,
Tap Dancing for Relatives and 2 fine press collaborations with the artist
Leonard Baskin. Clemson University named Michelson their Calhoun Distinguished
Reader in American Literature in 2008. Recent poems have appeared in The
Harvard Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Common, Parnassus and elsewhere.

MICHELSON’s
children’s books have been listed among the 10 Best Books of the Year by
The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and The New Yorker; and
among the 12 Best Books of the Decade by (the evil) Amazon.com. He has
been a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award (2x), the Harlem Book Fest
Wheatley Award, and the National Jewish Book Award (3x), as well as receiving
two Skipping Stones Multicultural Book Awards, a National Parenting Publication
Gold Medal and an International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice Award.
Michelson is the only author to receive both a Sydney Taylor Gold and Silver
Medal in a single year from the Association of Jewish Librarians in their 47
year history.

He
is the owner of R. Michelson Galleries, the host of Northampton Poetry Radio,
and the just completed his second term as Poet Laureate of Northampton
Massachusetts.